Our epic journey into pop punk concludes as we each pick an album that we think is the best example of the genre (sorta) and try to link our chosen artist to Angela Lansbury.
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EPISODE 100. PART TWO. We give you the history of pop punk from the 1998 “golden age” to the present day. It’s a genre that will never die, apparently.
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EPISODE 100. Somehow we’ve endured each other’s company for 100 episodes. Which is miraculous . On part one of our LIVE Pop Punk Mixtape we cover the history of the genre from the 70s until 1998.
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Boasting both an impressive back catalouge and a number of music industry near misses, Cable are both a great band and a cautionary tale. On this episode Chris takes us through the stories and the music of this unsung yet also influential 90s post-hardcore band.
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Chris was ill this week so we were unable to record. As a result, we thought we'd share with you an episode that, until now, was for subscribers only.
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Yes, that is a photo of Bobby Mugabe on the cover. This record is just as confrontational as you would expect with a cover like that, but rather then deal in political rhetoric, billy woods decides to weave insightful, often devastating narratives into his overtly Marxist leaning music. Is History Will Absolve Me his greatest work?
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Pull your hair forward into the emo fringe you used to have, look out your studded belt and apply liberal amounts of eyeliner as Mark takes you back to the hey-day of emo, screamo and metalcore with The Bled’s first album ‘Pass the Flask’.
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We return to more navigable territory this week as Chris puts forward Sharon Van Etten’s latest album for inclusion in our discography. Can a record that was released in the same year we review it be called Unsung? All this and more in this week’s episode.
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It’s 80s Japanese pop music. There’s not much else to say about it. But we do get a history lesson on the weird genre of city pop and Japanese popular music as whole.
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We continue our run of picking intense, sad music by giving old Elliott Smith’s second last album a good once over. We talk about his career, tragic life, deep dive into his discography and then put it to you to decide if Figure 8 is his unsung classic.
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Cool. Interesting. Dynamic. Influential. All of these words have been used to describe Interpol. There have also been other words used to describe them, and they are all said in this episode. Good and bad. Is Interpol’s debut album worthy of a place in our discography though? Well, it depends who you ask…
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It all comes down to this. Weaver tells us why he loves this album so much and Chris talks about where this places in fan rankings and much more. Is this their definitive moment? Does it deserve a place in our discography? Listen and vote!
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Hailing from the DIY music hotspot that is Umea, Sweden, Cult of Luna have slowly risen over the years to become of the most influential post-metal bands since Isis. On this episode we cover the band’s history and discography, and get to the bottom of why this band are just so damn good.
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In 1993 four men formed a band in Gainesville, Florida and decided to literally sing themselves hoarse every night. The result? Emo tinged punk rock music that has led them to become one of the most influential punk bands. This week we talk about Hot Water Music’s fifth album, ‘Caution’. Is it their classic? Is it even their unsung classic? The debate begins now.
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The Knife were a band whose message was always completely synchronized with their music. Whether their politics was catchy, like in their earlier, more electro-pop stuff, or in this, their final, hugely experimental artistic statement. Chris reckons this is their true classic, not just an unsung classic.
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So, now you've listened to our run down of left wing music, we get down to the buisness of picking our albums. One punk, one hip hop, one metal. Which is best? Well, you know what to do.
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Commies! They destroy everything! But do they make good music? Well, this week, in part one of a two part special, we discuss some radical left wing tunes. We also discuss what our mixtape is NOT about…
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Yorkshire is a dark place, and Hood do nothing to dispel that myth with their skittish combination of post-rock, trip hop, electronica and indie. As a band who were indie press darlings at the time of Cold House’s release, they all but seem to have been forgotten. Until today. Weaver explains all.
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This week we delve into the crazy funk of Parliament’s, frankly insane, mythology. An acid soaked, psychedelic sci-fi odyssey that takes place over 10 bonkers records. Mothership Connect is the magnum opus, so is it worth inclusion in our discography?
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So here we are. The gloves are off. Chris gets torn in to the album whilst also reckoning with his own deep seated disdain for the band. We also ponder how they became so important, and then we put it to you to decide if this record is worthy of inclusion in our discography.
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